Hackernews posts about Congress

Congress is the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprising two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate, which make laws for the country.

1. White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup (www.washingtonpost.com)
   101 points by handfuloflight 20 days ago | 67 comments
2. Head of Library of Congress fired via email (www.usatoday.com)
   18 points by anigbrowl 22 days ago | 1 comments
3. Trump's 'corrupt' billion-dollar crypto deal sparks outrage in Congress (qz.com)
   17 points by giuliomagnifico 24 days ago | 1 comments
4. Urge Congress to Save Public Media Like PBS (protectmypublicmedia.org)
   13 points by burnt-resistor 16 days ago | 2 comments
5. Congress Just Took a Sledgehammer to the EV Industry. Here's What It Means (insideevs.com)
   8 points by coloneltcb 9 days ago | 11 comments
6. DOGE sought access to Congress's watchdog (www.lawdork.com)
   8 points by SubiculumCode 15 days ago | discuss
7. Trump names Todd Blanche acting librarian of Congress (apnews.com)
   6 points by leotravis10 19 days ago | 1 comments
8. If Your Commute Is a Nightmare, Blame Congress (www.bloomberg.com)
   5 points by JumpCrisscross 26 days ago | discuss
9. Congressional Members sent letters to Wikimedia Foundation (jewishjournal.com)
   4 points by kurtreed2 29 days ago | 1 comments
10. If Congress cancels the SLS rocket, what happens next? (arstechnica.com)
    4 points by rbanffy 18 days ago | discuss
11. When It Comes to AI Policy, Congress Shouldn't Cut States Off at the Knees (garymarcus.substack.com)
    3 points by nis0s 17 days ago | discuss
12. U.S. Quantum Industry Leaders Press Congress to Expand Support (thequantuminsider.com)
    2 points by donutloop 5 days ago | discuss
13. Business Software Group Urges Congress to Reauthorize Quantum Initiative (thequantuminsider.com)
    1 points by donutloop 7 days ago | discuss
14. How do I help a key employee stuck in Kafkaesque immigration limbo?
    9 points by owentbrown 29 days ago | 6 comments
15. Why I'm resigning from the National Science Foundation (time.com)
    233 points by jbegley 18 days ago | 301 comments
16. H.R.1161 – Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 (www.congress.gov)
    24 points by martialg 24 days ago | 11 comments
17. The 'Green' Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions (e360.yale.edu)
    16 points by Brajeshwar 3 days ago | 2 comments
18. House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI (apnews.com)
    7 points by jonbaer 9 days ago | 2 comments
19. US AI execs urge improved infrastructure and chip exports to beat China (www.reuters.com)
    6 points by byte-bolter 20 days ago | discuss
20. Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened (www.theregister.com)
    5 points by rntn 15 days ago | discuss
21. Software Patent Bill PERA Reintroduced in the US (www.hklaw.com)
    3 points by zoobab 25 days ago | discuss
22. Lossless video compression using Bloom filters (github.com)
    346 points by rh3939 5 days ago | 116 comments
23. Show HN: I compressed 10k PDFs into a 1.4GB video for LLM memory (github.com)
    11 points by saleban1031 2 days ago | discuss
24. Show HN: SlimImg – Client-side image compression and EXIF editor (no uploads) (slimimg.tools)
    4 points by aaiiggcc000 9 days ago | 4 comments
25. Show HN: MCP server that compresses and serves MySQL schema data (github.com)
    2 points by shibayu36 about 14 hours ago | discuss
26. Show HN: Rocketship – Open-source E2E testing that's self-hostable (github.com)
    26 points by magius18 11 days ago | 5 comments
27. Show HN: Octelium – L7-Aware ZeroTrust Remote Access ZTNA over WireGuard and K8s (github.com)
    2 points by geoctl 6 days ago | 3 comments
28. Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics (blogs.loc.gov)
    367 points by aaronbrethorst almost 2 years ago | 211 comments
29. 38th Chaos Communication Congress (events.ccc.de)
    353 points by joeig 5 months ago | 195 comments
30. Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress (venturebeat.com)
    352 points by thibo_skabgia almost 2 years ago | 75 comments
31. A UK college student explaining congressional procedure to Washington (www.politico.com)
    338 points by andytratt about 1 year ago | 143 comments
32. US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs (thehill.com)
    312 points by fork-bomber almost 2 years ago | 639 comments
33. Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars (www.niemanlab.org)
    291 points by giuliomagnifico 8 months ago | 572 comments
34. CitizenDJ – Make music using free audio and video from the Library of Congress (citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov)
    266 points by mindcrime 9 months ago | 24 comments
35. CCC Invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg (www.ccc.de)
    255 points by Tomte over 1 year ago | 136 comments
36. Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws (www.eff.org)
    250 points by abtinf about 1 month ago | 105 comments
37. US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it (www.wired.com)
    238 points by arkadiyt almost 2 years ago | 95 comments
38. Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks (www.msn.com)
    195 points by mandeepj almost 2 years ago | 79 comments
39. Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago (www.theatlantic.com)
    192 points by fortran77 11 months ago | 182 comments
40. iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines (www.theverge.com)
    185 points by thunderbong almost 2 years ago | 2 comments
41. Schedule 37th Chaos Communication Congress (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
    179 points by y04nn over 1 year ago | 16 comments
42. US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’ (www.wired.com)
    167 points by jbotdev almost 2 years ago | 101 comments
43. Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who (act.eff.org)
    151 points by freedomben about 1 year ago | 189 comments
44. Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video] (www.youtube.com)
    146 points by thunderbong almost 2 years ago | 189 comments
45. EFF Call to Action: Tell Congress to Stop 'Kids Online Safety Act' (act.eff.org)
    142 points by fwungy over 1 year ago | 48 comments
46. EFF: Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents (act.eff.org)
    140 points by camkego about 1 year ago | 59 comments
47. Senators strike bipartisan deal for ban on stock trading by members of Congress (www.cnbc.com)
    128 points by donsupreme 11 months ago | 53 comments
48. 37C3 Unlocked (37th Chaos Communication Congress) (events.ccc.de)
    99 points by qwertox over 1 year ago | 8 comments
49. Ex-congressman convicted of insider trading before T-Mobile merger with Sprint (www.nbcnews.com)
    98 points by perihelions over 1 year ago | 33 comments
50. 38th Chaos Communication Congress (events.ccc.de)
    95 points by tannhaeuser 5 months ago | 4 comments
51. 84% want stronger online privacy laws, but Congress's corruption stalls progress (www.techdirt.com)
    90 points by speckx 9 months ago | 108 comments
52. Why Congress is considering a ‘right to repair' law for car owners (www.nbcdfw.com)
    89 points by danboarder almost 2 years ago | 27 comments
53. Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet (gizmodo.com)
    84 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 120 comments
54. Congress Wants to Let Private Companies Own the Law (www.techdirt.com)
    77 points by WarOnPrivacy 10 months ago | 20 comments
55. Pharmacist says he has filled Alzheimer's prescriptions for members of Congress (2017) (www.vox.com)
    76 points by hammock almost 2 years ago | 39 comments
56. Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program (arstechnica.com)
    64 points by LinuxBender 10 months ago | 61 comments
57. Live: UFO/UAP Congressional Hearings (www.theguardian.com)
    60 points by whycome almost 2 years ago | 1 comments